2008-04-02 New Time, Better Attendance?

Tuesday night is Grunt Foundation night with our new 6pm server start time. Philly logged in around 5:40pm to visit the priest trainer for upgraded spells as she hadn't made it over there since reaching level 38. The warlock Kon arrived about five minutes later. Huld showed up right at 6pm and now all we needed was Arq.

At 6:20pm, still no Arq, and Huld gets a phone call.

At 6:40pm, Huld is still gone, and still no Arq.

At 7pm Huld times out and disconnects without ever coming back.

I'm thinking I could be in Tempest Keep right now, which is where Wild's guild was headed tonight.

Kon and Philly, once again on our own, hooked up with another group doing the Scarlet Monastery Armory. Philly has done both the Graveyard and the Library wings in SM. All that is left is the Armory and Cathedral. If we had time the group intended to do both those wings.

The Armory has just one boss, Herod, so we decided to start there. The group included a DPS warrior who did not want to tank, a resto druid who wanted to be main healer (how about that?), and a tanking warrior who had horrible connection problems and only actually participated in about half the fights. Highest level player was the tank at level 41.

Overall it was a fun group, and they played well. Only a couple of times did we over-aggro mobs and things got a little exciting, but the druid was a good healer and Philly rarely needed to back up heal. So Philly was pretty much in full shadow priest mode for this run as a ranged DPSer.

The fight with the boss, Herod, was a bit anti-climactic. He is in the center at the bottom of a tall room with a winding stair that leads down to him. The two warriors tanked him where he stood while the rest of us stayed at the top of the stairs. It was an easy tank and spank and a warrior helm dropped.

I don't understand why we had trouble with the Armory when the GF first tried it. A pretty straightforward fight.

We had fun, though, and there was a little hilarity even before the run started when a player outside the group started flirting with Kon, who plays a female blood elf. I told him to just roll with it, but he was too embarrassed. I teased him about using his "charms" to get people to join our group (both groups we have put together have been pretty good). Must be the female alt thing, he said. Yea, but nobody hits on me, I told him. Then again, Philly is just skin and bones, and more bone than skin.

Both warriors had to leave after we finished the Armory, so we called it a night. Philly hung around to do some herb and fish farming. Level 40 is getting close and Philly needs to make enough gold to be able to buy a mount when she gets there. Philly has 67 gold, but needs 85 gold to buy the mount and the training required.